The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 406 (L. 3)

Senior Courts Of England And Wales

County Court, England And Wales

The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

26th February 2015

Laid before Parliament

27th February 2015

Coming into force in accordance with rule 1

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Rules in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015(1) (“the 2015 Act”) to make rules under section 1 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997(2) and paragraphs 2 to 4 and 6 of Schedule 3 to the 2015 Act.

Before making these Rules, the Lord Chancellor has consulted the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in accordance with paragraph 7(2)(a) of Schedule 3 to the 2015 Act.

(1)

2015 c. 6.

(2)

1997 c.12. Section 1 was substituted by section 82(1) of the Courts Act 2003 (c.39) and further amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), sections 15 and 146 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 261 and 262 and Schedule 18.